Chinese media and Internet, Great Walls and Great Firewalls; China and Africa; Beijing and other stuff, updated very rarely
The latest Sinica is up: The Gutter Oil Podcast, hosted by Kaiser Kuo with Barbara Demick of the Los Angeles Times, Sharon LaFraniere of the New York Times, Will Moss, and me.
Also out this week Live From the PRC: China’s Top Podcasts in City Weekend. Editor Lee Mack was kind enough to write:
But without a doubt, though, the award for best China-related podcast goes to the dynamic duo of Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn who host the weekly Sinica podcast
Thanks.
An interview with Chinese blogger, novelist and car racer Han Han.
He answers questions about censorship, the failed Jasmine Revolution in China and social media in China.Well worth a watch.
Yesterday evening I recorded a Sinica podcast focusing on North Korea’s recent attempts to showcase itself as a place of opportunity for Chinese and other foreign investors.
Guests on the podcast are Ed Wong from the New York Times, Alexa Olesen from Reuters and Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt from the International Crisis Group, all of whom recently returned from the DPRK.
You can listen to the podcast and read more about it here.
Below is an recent Al Jazeera program with Evgeny Morozov discussing social media and activism and some of the ideas behind his book The Net Delusion, subtitled ‘The dark side of Internet freedom’. Well worth a read, especially for people who have drunk the techno-utopian Kool Aid.
I am on the second part of the program, looking a little scary – the interview was done over Skype just after 5am Melbourne time – I was in that lovely city for the Melbourne Writers Festival. A little too early in the morning for love television – I realize I did not properly answer some of the questions that were put to me.
Part 1
Part 2
